San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1887-01-08
THE COMING ELECTION.

Interest seemed TO center In the cardl-
dates per 81; this time the interest CEN
t-rs in the work expected of those can
drdates. The Improvement OF the city
comes first in the puoiic consideration.
the men who shall execute the will OF
tie people being an after consideration.
rue workingmen OF this city are moving
caucus for the selection Of candidates
for election. While thus moving LEI
tn-m remember that there is no better
means, just now, of eQualiZing some OF
the wealth OF this city than in making
distribution OF 1t in the way Of wages
for city improvements TO hundreds al
men in this city who desire work and
cannot get It. The time has come TO
bond this city for sewers and street i'm
provements, and that question is first in
municipal importance. What shall be
done with the sewage OF a city, how dis
pose OF 1t so as to prevent disease and
vitiated atmospheres by its presence,
and at the same time to do so in the
most economic way, is the question OF
questions in all our principal cities. The
question Of health is the foremost one,
after that the question of economy.
There Is no economy in doing the work
imperfectly, no matter how chsaply. 10
be done so as TO answer the ends Of it's
doing. ii must be done scientifically
and thoroughly. The whole question Of
method must be decided in;elligently,
in the light of the best SAM
tary and engineering information.
and no false ideas of economy
must be permitted to stand in the way
of the carrying out of such methods as
are thus approved. The election OF
common council with the specific purpose
of committing to them this work Of
sewers and street improvements is the
thing now demanded. The details OF
this work must be very largely left to
their discretion and intelligence and
sense of the public needs and interest In
the welfare of our corporation. 10 gen.
eral. IL may be laid down that no greater
sum should be expended year by year
than can be probably and economical
Iy laid out. Ler that sum, say from
$3.50 600 to S250,0O0per annum be laid
out for a succession of two, three or four
years, as may be found necessary. and
then reduce the amount to that
at present appropriated, S5O, 900. This
would return with very little rebate
into The Golfers of our business men and
be distributed as so much added circu-
latiOn to the amount of our present
circulating medium. ThIs money will not
he drawn from the city to bent fit men
and labor and business in other lUcalilirs.
Ii will be Returned 10 our own people,
10 our own business to our own work
msn first, and through them to every in
dustry of the city. San Antonio can af-
ford this outlay. She cannot affprd TO
b. stranded in the side current of pro-
gress and left eddying in the pool Of in
action, While the gre At currents of mu-
niCipal wealth flow past her to enrich
the more progressive and liberal
cities of this state. The work
repeatedly referred to in these
columns this week, editOrally and in'cor-
r-spOndenoe, must be undertaken or
San Antonio enters upon period of de-
Cadence Of indefinite duration. This
approaching election offers All OppOrtun-
y for our working men to step TO the
front and determine this matter, by re-
electirg for Office such men as will act
as aldermen, in accordance with the
views here expressed, which vie vs. are
known to meet the approval of the in
telligent business men of San Antonio.
Tue kick will come against this move
ment from the men of unprOductive
capital. who have ever been an incum-
bus upon the growth and progress of the
ciry. These men must be site-tracked.
The most effectusl way of accomplish
ing this will be for our business men to
take direction of this movement and so
bring it to pass. By them it can be ae-
complIshed. We very seriously doubt
its contamination otherwise.